Webinar: Building Urban Trails in Difficult Places (RECORDING)

$25.00–$55.00

AMERICAN TRAILS MEMBERS SAVE: Only $35 for members (a $20 savings) on this webinar if you are an American Trails Member! Please be sure and select “YES” for this question and the $20 will automatically be deducted from your total. (The cost is $55 for nonmembers.)

Product Description

This webinar is available as a recording that you can purchase for only $35 if you are an American Trails member or $55 for nonmembers. Please note that CEUS are only available if you attend a LIVE webinar.

Your purchase includes a recording of the webinar, a pdf with clickable links to the resources slide shown during the Q&A portion of the live webinar, as well as the sponsor/presenter slide with links to their websites.

ABOUT THIS WEBINAR

American Trails presents this Webinar to help trail planners address the challenges and complexities of building trails in difficult situations. The presenters will review alignment strategies, structural systems, and techniques for solving these problems and building quality trails.

The webinar “Building Urban Trails in Difficult Places” will discuss the needs that planners, designers, and advocates have in increasingly addressing more complex infrastructure challenges in order to find routes and passageways, fit into tight spots, and traverse barriers including roads, rivers and streams, restricted floodplains, railroad tracks, swales, and other impediments. In addition, tight budgets require innovative solutions.

This webinar will review alignment strategies, structural systems and techniques for solving these problems, and building quality trails case study examples ranging from pre-fabricated products to custom designs. The presentation will benefit all levels of expertise from novice to experts as well providing tools to lay trail advocates in making the case to build a project in their community.

Learning Objectives:

Understanding techniques and tools for getting a trail or greenway from here to there

A knowledge base helpful in assessing the feasibility of trail alignment options

Examples useful in working more effectively with engineers and other technical designers in solving trail alignment and structural problems

Tools and examples for making the case for approval agencies such as floodplain administrators, traffic engineers, etc.

Tools and examples for making the case to political decision makers that the project is feasible

Successful solutions with visual examples and case studies can be enabling and stimulate other creative solutions

The webinar will be led by three seasoned greenway experts with a long history of successful urban trail building:

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

PAYMENTS ACCEPTED:Payments accepted are credit cards (Visa and MasterCard), checks, and purchase orders. If paying via purchase order, please select “check” as your payment method in the online store and in the “notes” section write in your purchase order number. Once payment has processed, a confirmation page will include a link to download the webinar and save to your computer.

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American Trails Mission

American Trails advances the development of diverse, high quality trails and greenways for the benefit of people and communities. Through collaboration, education, and communication, American Trails raises awareness of the value these trail systems offer.